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    The Pocket Guide to English Architecture
    The Pocket Guide to English Architecture
    The Pocket Guide to English Architecture
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    The Pocket Guide to English Architecture

    By Philip Wilkinson

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    This user-friendly guide to English architecture up to the mid-twentieth century is divided into styles with examples highlighted (e.g. the Tower of London for Norman Architecture), complemented by original prints which sets this quality book apart from other guides. The detailed 18th and 19th century (and later) prints enable the reader to understand just what makes these styles so important and have the advantage of being much clearer than much modern photography. Written by architecture expert Philip Wilkinson, this is a must-read book for anyone who wants to know about English architecture in a pocket-size guide, ideal for reading when traveling.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 21, 2009
    ISBN9781783400485
    The Pocket Guide to English Architecture
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    Philip Wilkinson

    Philip Wilkinson served in the British Army for 31 years with the Royal Artillery, Commando and Parachute Brigades, Special Forces and the Intelligence Community in the Far East, Middle East and Northern Ireland, where he spent six years. In his final five years in the British Army, he was responsible for developing and writing the first British joint doctrine manual called Joint Warfare Publication, Peace Support Operations. After leaving the British Army, he spent 4 years as a Senior Research Fellow with the Conflict, Security and Development Group, Kings College, London, developing the concept and practice of Security Sector Reform (SSR). Subsequently, he has been employed by the British Government as a security advisor, at the highest levels of government, in Rwanda (2001, with President Kagame), Sri Lanka (six months in 2002, with Defence Minister Marapana), Afghanistan (2004-06, with the National Security Advisor and President Karzai), in Iraq (3 years with the National Security Advisor), Palestine (15 months in 2011–12 establishing a multi-agency senior leader’s course) and in August 2016 he was contracted to advise the President of Somalia on all security policy matters as they relate to stabilisation and nation-building. He has assisted in the conduct of comprehensive national security threat assessments in Rwanda, Afghanistan and Somalia and the writing of national security, white-paper, policy statements in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia. He is married to Ruth and they have two grown-up children: Ollie and Sophie. His hobbies include driving his classic cars fast, salmon fishing and going to the village pub in Enford; but not all at the same time. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy and of the City and Guilds of London Institute, and a research associate at Chatham House.

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      This guide, though well-written, fails to live up to its promise of being a comprehensive guide to English architectural styles. The biggest fault is entire sections that have no illustrations at all of the buildings mentioned. The illustrations that are here are all black and white. Most are drawings and are quite good, but something like All Saints Church on Margaret Street in London has to be seen in full color to appreciate just how marvelous it is. So once again, you'll be turning frequently to the Internet to see what the book is talking about.

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    The Pocket Guide to English Architecture - Philip Wilkinson

    First published in Great Britain in 2009 by

    REMEMBER WHEN

    An imprint of

    Pen & Sword Books Ltd

    47 Church Street

    Barnsley

    South Yorkshire

    S70 2AS

    Copyright © Philip Wilkinson, 2009

    ISBN 978 1 84468 045 0

    ISBN 9781783400485 (epub)

    ISBN 9781783400225 (prc)

    The right of Philip WIilkinson to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

    A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the Publisher in writing.

    Printed and bound by CPI UK

    Picture research by Fiona Shoop

    Pen & Sword Books Ltd incorporates the Imprints of Pen & Sword

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    Contents

    Timeline

    Introduction

    The Beginnings (before 1066)

    Norman 1066–c. 1200

    Early English Gothic c. 1200–c. 1300

    Decorated Gothic c. 1300–c. 1350

    Perpendicular Gothic c. 1337–c. 1540

    Interlude: The Vernacular House

    Tudor c. 1500–c. 1600

    Palladian c. 1600–c. 1660

    Wren and the English Baroque c. 1660–c. 1720

    Interlude: The Terraced House

    Palladian Revival c. 1715–c. 1760

    Neo-Classicism c. 1760–c. 1790

    ‘Gothick’ c. 1740–c. 1820

    The Picturesque and the Exotic c. 1790–c. 1810

    Classical Revivals c. 1790–c. 1830

    Interlude: The Industrial Revolution

    Gothic Revival c. 1830–c. 1890

    Interlude: Iron and Glass

    Victorian Variety c. 1850–c. 1890

    Arts and Crafts c. 1880–c. 1910

    The Turn of the Century c. 1890–c. 1914

    Interlude: Garden and Suburb

    Modernism c. 1920–1939

    Art Deco and ‘Moderne’ c. 1925–1939

    Appendix One: Classical Columns

    Appendix Two: Development in Architecture: Norman to Gothic

    Picture Sources

    Index

    Timeline

    c. 600–1066 Saxon

    1066–c. 1200 Norman

    St Albans Abbey

    c. 1200–c.1300 Early English Gothic

    York Minster

    c. 1300–c.1350 Decorated Gothic

    The curvilinear window typical of the style, as seen at Beverley Minster

    c. 1337–c. 1540 Perpendicular Gothic

    King's College, Cambridge

    c. 1500–c. 1600 Tudor

    Hampton Court Palace

    c. 1600–c. 1660 Palladian

    Royal Hospital, Greenwich

    c. 1660–c. 1720 English baroque

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